Monthly Archives: April 2010

Eulogy Belgian Tavern

On a recent trip to Philly, we decided to stop in at Eulogy around lunchtime on a nice Saturday afternoon.   Perfect weather coupled with fantastic beers.   Say no more!
Dave the bartender was easily one of the most knowledgeable barkeeps that I’ve ever met.   I told him some of my favorite beers and before you know it he had me trying things I’ve never heard of or had before including: Boskeun Speciaal Paasbier, Val-Dieu Triple, De Ranke XX Bitter, and Valeir Blonde.
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We had a serving of the meatballs which I thought were delicious.    Highly recommended.   Easily in my top 10 list of best places to get a beer.   More reviews here.

Grateful Red Ale

If you know me, I was bound to have a GD inspired brew at some point.   This was brewed back on 3/6/2010.  
This recipe is originally taken from Jamil.  To quote him, “This is how red ales are done on the West Coast.  Just about every brewery out here needs a beer on their menu that has a lot of hop flavor, and many of them turn to this style of beer.   They are big, bold statements balancing lots of citrusy hops and specialty malt.”
Beer Label - Grateful Red

Ingredients (Single Infusion Mash – 152F):

12.25# 2-row Maris Pale Malt
1# Munich
1# Crystal 40L
8 oz Crystal 120L
8 oz Victory
3 oz Pale Chocolate

Hops:

1.1 oz Horizon 13.0% AA 60 Min
0.5 oz Cascade 6.0% AA 10 Min
1 oz Centennial 9.0% AA 10 Min
1 oz Cascade 6.0% AA 0 Min
1 oz Centennial 9.0% AA 0 Min

Yeast:

(2) US-05  – ~@67F

Yield:

5 Gallons

Stats:

OG: 1.076 IBU: 66 SRM: 16 ABV: 7.8%